As soon as I’m finished with Sharky’s room, I’ll post pictures. But for now, you’re just getting bits and pieces.

The most important supply has been Michael Miller fabric – I’m using a combination of the Groovy Guitar and Lagoon prints, and I LOVE how everything is coming together. Love the colors, love the prints, love the thickness of the actual fabric, and baby’s going to love it too.

We painted the room and I’m making new crib bedding with the quilting fabric to match.

My first accomplishment (besides the quilt) is the crib skirt. I tried to be very thorough with this tutorial, but maybe that’s just more confusing. Hopefully it all makes sense!

4. For the first long side, you’ll have a rectangular piece that measures 10″ x 52″.

Attach the bias tape along both short edges and one long edge.

Leave one long edge unfinished until the end.

Start pinning the bias tape at the top of one short side. Go down the first short side, around the corner, along the long side, and back up the other short side.

Corners are tricky.

Pin along the first edge until you get to the corner and then fold the bias tape at a 90″ angle to match up with the quilting fabric. You’ll have a bunch of excess fabric in that corner than you should manipulate to make into a little triangle so that the folded edge of the bias tape on the inside meets at a 90″ angle.

5. Sew bias tape to quilting fabric with a 1/2″ seam.

To sew down the corners, sew along the first side right up to where the folds of the triangle are. You’re going to fold the triangle back away from your stitching line so you don’t sew them down, you just sew right up against them. Maybe one stitch over.

Basically, you’re going to pretend that that little triangle of fabric doesn’t exist. Your stitching lines will almost meet at the corner at a 90 degree angle. You’re just going to leave tiny bit of space so you don’t sew any of that excess fabric in the triangle down. If you do, you won’t be able to flip it around to the back side.

You can see in the above picture where I stop my line of stitching. That triangle of fabric should still be able to stitch straight up after you’ve sewed along both edges of the corner.

After you finish the first side, back stitch, snip your threads, and start a new line of stitching along the long edge, back stitching at the beginning.

Start sewing exactly where the folds from the triangle meet the rest of the bias tape going along that long side – I put my pin right up against the folds so I know right where to start.

Only one more corner!

6. After you’ve attached the bias tape on the right side of the fabric with a 1/2″ seam, flip the folded edge of the bias tape around the raw edge and overlap the seam line on the back with the folded edge of the bias tape by 1/8″.

I find that using quilting binding clips (which look EXACTLY like barrettes) holds the fabric in place better.

To sew down the corners, pin right up to the corner.

Then fold the next edge over, overlapping the first edge. The two corners will make a 45 degree angle.

7. Stitch in the ditch.

The corners are the hardest part, and after you do it once it’ll be easy.

Finish the second long edge – I serge. I love serging.

Now one long side of your crib skirt is finished. Do the next 3 (or however many other sides of your crib are visible).

The pieces will all attach to your crib separately, so no need to hassle yourself over connecting them.

Maybe I am just crazy {and really bad at math!} but I’m struggling to come up with the same outer dimensions you used.. You said you did 52 x 2 (long sides) + 28 x 2 (short sides) for 264?.. but I’m getting 160”.. I’m just trying to see if I missed a step about doubling or adding in extra fabric. We’re trying to figure out how much fabric we’ll need for our crib and I want to make sure I’m following the tutorial right!